Update: This is no longer in effect as of February 20, 2013. The post requirement was removed a while back, but here is the official notice about its removal Spam for any other reason is still without consequences though.

The system now in place at TechLifeForum is the following:

For any members that don't have 50 posts, you cannot download attachments freely, this is in place so that we don't have people spamming for a download link and "trashing" the forum.

Exception: For members with 20 posts or more, you may PM myself, and ask to be reviewed. The review process is based on the quality of your posts, and I will either deny or accept your eligibility to obtain the attachment download that you want. This ONLY is valid for ONE attachment download, so make it count. After that you may not ask for a download link to another attachment, and you will be required to make the rest of the 50 total posts to obtain all other downloads freely.

Any spammer's for this post count will not get the attachment downloads and will be immediately banned. So be forewarned!

(02-22-2012, 11:50 AM)Hell Guardian Wrote: finally, i have been waiting for this for sometime now
Good work guys :)

It's been back and forth, we've been playing around with a good setting for post count for a while, I believe it's been anything from 5 to 10 to 25 to 40, 45, and 50 posts in the past, but this new addition should help tremendously for reducing spam no matter what requirement we set in my mind. I think we just went about it in the wrong way in the past.

We needed a new system, a new idea, like this one which should accompany the majority of members. It benefits both the member to be able to download something for less, and the forum with better quality in the posts we receive.